Owner's ruling. Measured over the twelve baseline layouts as realised value per
m2 (rate x quality, not the rate alone):
as shipped before this room 67.0 terrace 294.6 violates, 4.39x
value_supported=100 only room 67.0 terrace 98.2 violates, 1.46x
geometric mean only room 132.9 terrace 296.8 violates, 2.23x
both room 132.9 terrace 98.9 satisfies
The 4.4x is roughly 2.2x aggregation and 2.0x rate, so neither half alone is
enough. That is why 39.18's geometric-mean aggregation moves from default-OFF
to default-ON here rather than waiting on its own A/B: it is not an optional
improvement, it is half of a ruling.
value_supported 300 -> 100, and set to value_outside rather than to a number
that makes the inequality come out -- back-solving from the corpus's measured
mean room quality would rot the moment either changed. Outdoor space is worth
the same to an occupant whatever level it sits on; the real difference between
a ground garden and a roof terrace is what it takes to BUILD, and cost already
says that (outside 10.0 vs outside_supported 110.0). Value describes worth,
cost describes structure, and the level belongs in the second.
Changed in CONF_DEFAULTS and the four corpus patterns.config files, which all
declared 300.0 explicitly. NOT changed in harbor-house-l0 (a shape-curve test
fixture) or y51-sweep-* (historical fixtures that exist to reproduce past
measurements) -- repricing those would destroy what they are for.
Neither change can move a fail, structurally rather than luckily: value rates
never enter fail emission, and evaluate_leaf emits each fail from its factor
before anything is combined. Verified corpus-wide: identical fail sets, scores
+11% to +169% (and -5% once, on a layout that is mostly terrace).
tests/test_terrace_value_ruling.py pins the ruling as an invariant of the
objective, and asserts that reverting the aggregation breaks it again, so
neither half can be quietly dropped.
The 500k cold-start baseline (39.12) is superseded -- this changes what "good"
means. The layouts stay valid and their fail counts are unchanged, but a fresh
corpus run is needed before any new number is compared with them.
Still untouched: circulation returns 0.07 per unit cost against a room's 0.66,
by far the worst thing a building can contain. That is homemaker-py-hxi.
Refs homemaker-py-ecx.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MJ84Feep79Hhm3E4zZJmnB
